(a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
(a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
(n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The angular distribution of the scattered light was obtained as a function of time and compared with the rates at which hydrolysis products were formed.
(2) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(3) The angular distribution of the scattered acoustic field from an inosonifying source will directly relate to the distribution of surface fibrillatory changes.
(4) The kainate and quisqualate types of excitatory amino acid receptor were visualized autoradiographically in brain sections from rats kindled by stimulating the angular bundle.
(5) To meet these prerequisites we have introduced some technical refinements: (1) computer-controlled rectilinear translations of the target in combination with different angular positions of the source and (2) computer-controlled rotations of the target around a vertical axis in combination with different angular positions of the source.
(6) The purposes of this study were to detect eventual late complications and to compare late results with postoperative angular curve correction.
(7) In severely impaired limbs, there was a marked shift in both the peak EMG angle and the angular domain of EMG activity for both biceps and triceps muscle groups, away from the normal elbow flexion-extension axis towards external humeral rotation and shoulder girdle elevation.
(8) Neither the sufferers and their spouses, nor the 20 couples who constituted the control group, showed any relationship between partners with respect to angular displacement.
(9) When a meridional-size lens is used to provide magnification in the horizonal meridan for one eye the resulting stereopsis distortion is readily accounted for in the terms of the binocular disparity caused by changed angular relations.
(10) The significant difference found in calculating the angular mandibular opening may be the result of difficulties in maintaining maximum passive opening.
(11) In keeping with current theories of training, gains were largest with prolonged, high intensity activity at angular velocities approximating those adopted during training.
(12) A new device for the intraoperative anterior correction of angular kyphoses is presented.
(13) 15 linear and angular measurements were performed on 80 lateral cephalometric films of 40 subjects.
(14) Type II cells are angular or stellate and contain numerous secretory granules averaging 200-220 nm in diameter.
(15) These results are compared with experimental data on angular scattering from liver, muscle, and blood, reported in a companion paper [J. Acoust.
(16) The preliminary experiments described here suggest that tilt aftereffects and illusions induced by projected slides of tilted real-object scenes have angular functions similar to that induced by a line grating.
(17) Comparison of Experiments 1 and 2 showed that the presence of gravireceptor stimuli increased the range of detectable angular accelerations and reduced the time required for detection.
(18) There was some correlation between substituents on aromatic ring and angular position, and antiarrhythmic activity.
(19) Rat TSH cells were ovoid or angular to stellate, and contained granules ranging in size from 60-175 nm.
(20) Histograms of cell orientation angles were plotted and the mean and angular deviation of each sample were calculated.
Twiggy
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twiggy Forrest is right: we shouldn't sell our natural resources at bargain basement prices | Richard Denniss Read more Losses for smaller junior miners such as BC iron will also increase.
(2) In her slightly fusty offices off Drury Lane, Michel enthuses about the new TV and internet-based deals for clients, from Simon Schama to Twiggy (she has a planned musical), and garden writer Sarah Raven, Michel's first client.
(3) Abbott did not refer to the commission’s report, but said the government would soon be responding to a review by the mining businessman Twiggy Forrest, which examined Indigenous employment and welfare and controversially recommended highly restricted cashless welfare cards.
(4) Shots of Banks as models such as Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Jerry Hall, Iman, Kate Moss, Twiggy and Grace Jones were created with nothing more than intelligent lighting and makeup – no digital manipulation.
(5) Income management, of a kind that seems mild compared to Twiggy Forrest’s proposals, was one of those experiments born during the Intervention, but it wasn’t exactly new.
(6) Denouncing the nanny state is the irritable mental gesture of our time, the automatic conservative response to any state-backed project, which makes Tony Abbott’s response to Twiggy Forrest’s plan to quarantine welfare payments all the more remarkable.
(7) Zoe Wood (@zoewoodguardian) Outrage from Mrs Abrahamson: Why is Twiggy range only online?
(8) Why isn't the Twiggy range available on the high street, and why are certain larger lingerie products only available online?
(9) Meanwhile, Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest, whose Fortescue Metals Group is Australia's third biggest exporter of iron ore (behind BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto), has launched a high court challenge .
(10) The Liberals might not be about to implement the Twiggy plan but the general thrust of Forrest’s argument is not that far from what Abbott’s been saying: welfare recipients have had it too easy for too long, and they’re about to get some stick.
(11) Authors on PFD's books include new foreign secretary William Hague, Twiggy, historian Simon Schama, Independent editor Simon Kelner and Julie Burchill.
(12) Nevertheless, in the Australian last week, Dennis Shanahan assured us that Twiggy is “a compassionate and visionary billionaire” whose “strengths and insights” have “translated into some fine and viable policy options”.
(13) • Twiggy Garcia is a DJ and blogger Lola Okolosie: Mindfulness instead of voting isn't enough "If people are informed, enlightened, awake, change will come," writes Brand.
(14) He said marketing campaigns using Twiggy and Jamie Redknapp were confusing customers because "you wouldn't see those sort of people shopping in there".
(15) Rihanna mingled with Zaha Hadid, Kate Moss with Peter Blake, Twiggy with Bianca Jagger, Kanye West with Richard E Grant.
(16) The Lib Dems have beaten the airbrushing drum loudly in recent months with MP Jo Swinson heading a campaign that managed to claim the scalp of an Olay ad featuring the model Twiggy last December .
(17) She joins from Trent FM, where she co-hosted the Jo & Twiggy breakfast show.
(18) Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest at the opening of the Firetail facility in the north-west of Western Australia, 6 May 2013.
(19) M&S is famed for sensible knickers, prawn sandwiches and Twiggy – but can it make a name for itself as a bank?
(20) A group of investors led by journalist and broadcaster Andrew Neil has bought the talent agency PFD, which represents celebrities including Simon Schama, Lord Attenborough and Twiggy.